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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Perioperative Care"”.
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Integrating Health Literacy And Ethnogeriatric Training For Anesthesia Providers To Improve Perioperative Care Of The Geriatric Patient
<p>The healthcare system requires consumers to be active participants in their care by making decisions in conjunction with their provider; managing complex medication regimens and scheduling appropriate medical visits in a timely fashion. Health literacy for racial and ethnic minority elders, is …
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Care needs of people with dementia in perioperative environments from the perspective of healthcare professionals : exploring professional experiences of person-centred dementia care
… within surgical services, yet their complex care needs are often unmet in the high-pressure perioperative environment. Research on dementia in surgical contexts remains fragmented, with limited guidance for practice, poor representation of people with dementia in studies, and significant …
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Prehabilitation for Enhanced Recovery After Colorectal Surgery
… of the patient, the quality of surgical care provided, and the degree of surgical stress elicited. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) minimizes surgical stress with standardized evidence-based perioperative care; yet the ERAS care elements focus mainly on the intra- and postoperative …
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Tetralogy of Fallot Surgical Repair and Associated Right Ventricular Remodeling
… of 40,000 cases. Advances in surgery and perioperative care led to improvements in perioperative mortality and, thus, a growing number of survivors. TOF survivors often suffer from complications related to a failing right ventricle. Follow-up studies evaluating TOF repair strategies …
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Behind closed doors – the lived experience of caring for patients in the perioperative setting
… and an understanding of the technical aspects of care in the perioperative setting. However, this focus can risk overshadowing the value of more subjective human ideas around care. This research aimed to better understand the lived experience of caring for patients in the perioperative setting. …
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Identification of Novel CCR4 Antagonists Through Inhibition of CCL22-Induced Cell Migration
… planning is essential to anesthetic and perioperative care to prevent the transition from acute to chronic pain. Concerns about the adverse effects of excessive opioid usage and the risk of drug dependency have led researchers to explore molecular pathways involved in pain development. …
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A systems approach to the use of routinely collected data for healthcare improvement
Healthcare is increasingly digitised and recorded, producing huge volumes of ‘routinely- collected’ data. This data is increasingly viewed as a valuable resource for the improvement of healthcare, although a truly unifying framework to translate data into knowledge and thence change is lacking. …
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A prospective study of paediatric preoperative fasting times at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… fasting durations and improve the quality of perioperative care, quality improvement (QI) interventions are required to create an adaptable fasting system which allows individualised fasting. Improving preoperative fasting times in children is the responsibility of all health care …
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An audit of the prevalence of abnormal fasting blood glucose levels in patients presenting for elective surgery at a selection of Western Cape government hospitals
… DM is associated with an increased risk of perioperative complications and mortality. Objectives. The primary objective was to establish the prevalence of DM in elective adult non-cardiac, non-obstetric surgical patients in Western Cape hospitals. The secondary objectives were to assess the …
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Anaemia in a South African colorectal ERAS programme – identifying the prevalence and predictors of preoperative anaemia and the effect on post-operative complications and length of stay
… updated ERAS Society guidelines for optimal perioperative care in colorectal surgery include specific recommendations for screening and treatment of preoperative anaemia as well as utilising restrictive blood transfusion practice. Assessing the prevalence and predictors of anaemia and …
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Audit of peripheral neuromuscular stimulators at the hospitals staffed by the department of anaesthesia and perioperative medicine at the University of Cape Town
… availability is a minimum requirement for perioperative care according to the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists’ (SASA) 2018 Practice Guidelines. The authors performed an audit of peripheral nerve stimulators (PNS) functionality and availability at their institution. In the …
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Fast-track programs in total hip and knee replacement at Swedish hospitals - influences on safety, outcome and patients' experiences
ABSTRACT Background Fast-track is a care concept that aims to enhance recovery after surgery, resulting in shortened perioperative hospital stay. By using evidence-based methods in preparation and perioperative care the clinical pathway and care process is optimized to achieve early discharge from …
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Liver resection for hepatocellular and fibrolamellar carcinoma in a South African tertiary referral centre
… Despite advances in surgical techniques and perioperative care, hepatectomy remains a high-risk surgical procedure with complications occurring in up to 40% of resections. This adds a significant burden to individual patients by adversely affecting quality of life and increasing length of …
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Reducing Barriers In The Adult Ambulatory Surgery Setting By Implementing Lean Methods
… in the preoperative setting affect patient care quality and increase organizational costs through inefficient use of operating room time. Lean methodology was successfully applied to improve efficiencies, patient privacy, and quality of care in a hospital-based high-volume adult ambulatory …
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The UT Southwestern Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health Program: Impact on Postoperative Delirium After Spine Surgery
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Investigating Resource Utilization in Elective Spine Patients with Affective Disorders: A Retrospective Analysis of a Cohort of 1199 Elective Spine Patients
… readmission rates. When assessing healthcare resource utilization, how ADs influence perioperative electronic patient portal (EPP) communication with care providers has not been explored. It is also unclear how ADs influence in-patient and postoperative opioid consumption. OBJECTIVE: To …
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A validation and feasibility study of the non-invasive measurement of oxygen delivery and consumption after elective major abdominal surgery.
Major surgery triggers a physiological stress response that results in an increase in post-operative metabolic demand and oxygen consumption (V̇O2), which must be met by an increased oxygen delivery (DO2). Historical studies described the increase in V̇O2 in patients after major surgery and …